Aspiring to the Immortal Path

It was a giant figure the size of a small mountain.

Its upper half was obscured in the fog while its giant feet descended from the sky like heavenly pillars. Each falling foot produced powerful shockwaves, and the outside of each foot was covered in a thick, hard shell.

The three had never seen such an enormous being before and were momentarily stunned.

What was this? Some kind of Epoch Behemoth?

The three Earth Immortals, despite their age and experience, had never heard of such a being before.

As for how a small valley could hold such gigantic creatures, they weren't surprised. Most Immortals had the ability to create dimensional subspaces, and a valley holding a world wasn't even as advanced as Tang Jie's world in a painting.

Meanwhile, that giant beast had already come over as if it was charging right at them, its pillar-like feet soon reaching the three. Two massive, black, curved blades sliced through the air as if a giant in the sky was swinging weapons at them.

"Seeking death!" Mou Siming snorted, throwing out a bolt of energy that blocked the blades. At the same time, he chopped a palm at one of the huge legs.

This was just a probing attack that he didn't expect to be very effective, but to his surprise, he broke right through the hard shell, leaving a deep wound on it. But only a little blue blood flowed out of the wound.

The giant beast retreated two steps and once more sliced its two blades at Mou Siming. He confidently struck back, easily breaking the blades. He then attacked several more times, and that giant beast finally reached its limits and fell from the clouds. What appeared was a savage creature, those two blades being its mandibles. Two long tentacles grew out of its head, which were constantly slapping at the air with a hiss.

Mou Siming clapped his hands and laughed. "This beast has nothing to it but its size!"

But the Flame Celestial Sovereign and Flowing Wind shared a glance, somewhat unsettled by this sight.

For some reason, the two found this giant beast rather familiar.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign pointed at the giant beast and said, "Sir Flowing Wind, why do I feel like I've seen this giant beast before?"

Flowing Wind nodded. "I have the same feeling. But the thick fog is preventing me from getting a clear view."

He was going to fly up into the sky to get a better look when the earth began to tremble, and then countless giant feet, rising and falling, appeared in the distance, signaling that countless giant beasts were rushing this way.

Everyone was horrified. No matter how weak these giant beasts were, this was too many to deal with.

"Go!" Flowing Wind barked, and the three of them took off.

After flying for a bit, they saw a giant bird in the air.

The bird was bigger than the giant beast from before, its head alone the size of a mountain, its wings practically blotting out the sky. A mere chirp from it was like a clap of thunder, making their hearts leap in shock.

Fortunately, the bird was so big that it didn't think the three were even worth eating, so it flew off with a flap of its wings.

The experience left the trio dripping in cold sweat, and they nervously laughed and wondered aloud what this world was and how it was so terrifying. Even a Boundless Gold Immortal's small world was unlikely to be so vast and dangerous, no?

If everything in the world was like this, wouldn't it be even bigger than the Vast Wilderness Continent?

Flowing Wind once more had a strange feeling.

Seemingly realizing something, he suddenly flew even higher, his eyes flashing like lightning as he looked around.

Mou Siming and the Flame Celestial Sovereign, wondering what he was doing, also flew up. They were just in time to see another giant beast, its body as big as a mountain and covered in long fur, with even longer whiskers growing from its mouth.

"What sort of beast is that?" Mou Siming groaned.

Flowing Wind softly said, "Don't you think that it looks a lot like a rat?"

"'A rat'?" Mou Siming and the Flame Celestial Sovereign said in shock.

When they looked again, they found that it really did look a lot like a rat. It was just so big and further obscured by the fog, so they couldn't be absolutely sure. It was only Flowing Wind's words that reminded them of the possibility.

The Flame Celestial Sovereign said in shock, "How could a rat be so big?"

Flowing Wind sighed. "It's not the rat that's big, but us who have become small."

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"I understand now."

Tang Jie was standing on a green pillar. After inspecting it from top to bottom, he had confirmed that it was a stalk of grass.

It was just a stalk of grass swaying in the wind, but he was so small that he hadn't noticed the grass was swaying.

If not for his Celestial Eye, he might not have noticed the problem.

The truth was that they had become small.

As small as a mote of dust.

"The Miniaturization Formation," Tang Jie muttered.

This was one of the ten great Dao Formations of High Antiquity.

The greatest power of the Miniaturization Formation was the ability to turn anyone who entered it extremely small, shrinking them in both size and strength. Meanwhile, those that had already existed within this formation were unaffected. In this way, this valley became full of countless giant creatures. The giant beast that Flowing Wind and company had encountered earlier was nothing more than an ordinary ant. In such a situation, the Miniaturization Formation didn't need to do anything else. The creatures living within the formation were enough to have intruders running for their lives.

And as this was a Dao Formation, only someone with a higher grasp of the Great Dao would be able to escape the constraints of the formation. Tang Jie hadn't expected to find a Dao Formation here, and he marveled at the strength of the Five Origins Estate's master.

Tang Jie now began to ponder what to do in his new environment.

The Miniaturization Formation was formidable, but it didn't guarantee death. Now that he was in the formation, he decided that he was going to exploit it to weaken those three.

In addition, since the Five Origins Estate's master had set up this hidden estate and laid down this Dao Formation, there had to be some sort of treasure here.

Cultivators took looting the treasures of the world as absolutely normal, and he had no reason to go back empty-handed now that he had found this place.

He began to calculate and plan for the best way to make those Earth Immortals suffer and at the same time open up the hidden estate.

Suddenly, the ground began to quake.

Tang Jie looked into the distance and saw countless giant feet stamping into the ground. Some behemoth was making its way over to Tang Jie.

Tang Jie activated his vision and discovered that a centipede was rushing toward him, a poisonous gas coming from its mouth.

"Shit!" Tang Jie immediately turned and ran.